Day jobs are often one of the biggest sources that writers draw from, especially early in their career. This influence is seen in some of the most popular poetry of the 20th century, from T.S. Eliot (banker) to William Carlos Williams (doctor). Sometimes the influence...

Would you like to win a signed copy of Margaret Atwood’s latest novel Maddaddam? To enter this draw, just tell us the name that Atwood gave to the wandering knight in the Home Economics opera she penned as a teenager. Hint: the answer is about six pages into...